The day after arriving at Fairy Tail, I woke up in the guild hall, feeling much better than yesterday. Whatever medicine they gave me must have worked, because I haven't felt this good in ages.
Igneel has never been very good at dealing with my illness. The downside of having a dragon for a parent is that he doesn't know exactly how to give medicine to a human when they're sick, let alone what medicine to use. Dragons usually just wait out a sickness, since they're strong enough to not need medicine. With me, he and Natsu would just keep me warm and wait it out.
I sit up and stretch out my arms. Ah…I haven't slept so well in ages. I look around and see no one in sight. I sniff the air and smell a lot of foreign scents, and one distinctly familiar one. I guess I should find Natsu.
Hopping out of bed, I wander out of the room and into the hallways of the guild hall. Following my nose, I weave my way out towards where most of the smells are. Natsu? Where are you?
Haru!? You're up? Are you feeling okay enough to be up? Did you get enough sleep?
Yeah, I'm feeling a lot better now. If I sleep any longer, I'm going to get lazy. So… where are you?
I'm out in the front. The master is about to give me a guild mark!
I stop in my tracks, feeling a little giddy and excited. So, we're joining the guild?
Yeah, so come on over and we'll decide where we want our marks!
Okay! I run through the hallways and finally come out in the main hall. I look around and see a lot of people, but not the spiky pink mop that I'm looking for. Natsu, I can't see you!
I'm over near the bar!
Right… because I totally know where that is… I look around, but there's just so many people here that I have no idea which way to look. Okay, Plan B.
Wait, what's Plan B?
You'll see. I take a deep breath and feel my magic start to flow. Wind swirls around me, lifting me into the air. "There we go." Now that I'm in the air, I should be able to look around for my brother quickly.
I glance around the room, searching for that mop of pink hair that I know so well. And I see him, standing next to the bar, glaring at a boy with dark hair. Since he's distracted, this provides the perfect opportunity for a little mischief.
"Natsu!" I squeal his name, making him look up at me as I zoom down from the air and bowl him over, squishing him against the floor as I sit on top of him. "Gotcha!"
With his face pressed to the ground, he can't open his mouth to yell at me. So he uses his mind instead. Ugh, Haru! What the hell!? That hurt!
"Oh come on, Natsu. Don't tell me that you weren't expecting that!" I grin at the back of his head and plop myself down on his back. "You should have known that I would do this as soon as I woke up."
I still hoped you wouldn't…
I sigh lightly. "Party pooper…" I roll off his back and sit on the floor next to him. "Happy? I'm off."
He rolls onto his back and glares up at me. "You didn't have to attack me, you know."
"Are you kidding me? That was hilarious!" I smile innocently at him, but with my usual brightness.
He tries to stay mad at me, but I know that he can't resist my smile. "Yeah, yeah… I know. But watch out, because I'm going to get you good next time."
I giggle a bit, then look around at the crowd of people. "Hi there! I'm Haru Dragneel! Nice to meet you!"
They all stare at me for a second, and a tall blond guy frowns at me. "Did she just… fly?"
I blink twice, then smile at him. "Yep! I can fly using my wind magic!" To prove my point, I let my wind magic sweep me off the ground and into the air. "See?" I land on the bar and sit down. "No biggie!"
Natsu climbs up onto the bar and sits next to me, looking worried. "Are you sure that you're okay? If you're still sick, you should go sleep some more." He presses his forehead to mine, frowning. "Well, it feels like you're at the right temperature. That's good."
I press back against his forehead and close my eyes. Of course I'm okay, you dummy. I should be asking you if you're okay. You're the one who carried me here, after all.
I'm okay. It takes a lot more than that to bring me down. I hear him laugh, and that makes my heart soar. Our connection is deep, so deep that we speak with our minds, and share our emotions. We never really figured out why, but it makes communicating so much easier.
"Uh… earth to the two pink idiots! Hello!?"
I turn my head to look at the boy with the dark hair. "I don't appreciate being called an idiot. I know that Natsu's a different story, but I'm probably at least twice as smart as you are."
"Hey!" Natsu looks at me with a pouty face. "Haru, you're so mean."
I poke him between the eyebrows and smirk. "You know, I keep telling you that if you pout like that, your face is going to get stuck that way. You won't be so cute anymore if that happens."
He blushes fiercely. "I told you to stop calling me cute!"
"Aw… but my big brother is such a cutie!" I hug him tightly, nearly squeezing all the air out of him. "It's only going to be a few years before you have all the girls after you!"
"Ugh… I hope not…" Natsu is still in the phase where he hates all girls except for me. And sometimes, he still hates my guts.
The old grandpa taps me on the shoulder. "It's good to see that you're feeling better. And before you arrived, Natsu and I were talking about where to put his guild mark. I assume that you would like one as well?"
I nod, then turn to Natsu. So? Where should we get them? On our backs? Ooh, maybe the neck?
I was thinking on my shoulder. I'd like it to be on my right shoulder.
Shoulder huh? That gives me a great idea. Then you can get it on your right, and I'll get it on my left. That way, if we're holding hands to do a powerful attack, our emblems will be facing each other!
Hey… that's a great idea! Natsu grins at me before turning to the master. "Hey, we decided!"
The old man raises an eyebrow. "You've decided…?" He frowns at us, then smiles. "Ah, I see, you two must be using some kind of telepathy magic."
I tilt my head at the old man, before realizing what he's referring to. "Oh yeah! I guess Natsu didn't tell you that part. We talk in our minds sometimes. That's how I found my way out here. I followed Natsu's smell, and his voice in my head."
"I see. That's a very interesting ability you two have there." He nods a bit, then his eyes widen and he takes out a little box with a handle. "This is the guild stamp. Have you two decided where you want your marks? You can also pick the color if you like."
Natsu grins and pulls his sleeve all the way up. "Right here, Gramps. And I want it to be red!"
The old man nods and presses the stamp to Natsu's arm, leaving behind a large red mark, shaped kinda weird, but kinda nice too. He turns to me and holds out the stamp. "What about you, little lady? Where do you want to have it?"
I roll up my sleeve, opposite to Natsu's. "Here. Oh, and can mine be green? Natsu likes red because of his fire, so I guess green would be better for me, since I use wind magic."
He chuckles a little and nods. "Alright then, silver it is." He presses the stamp to my arm, and it feels warm as he presses it to my skin. And when he lifts it away, there's a green stamp, identical to Natsu's, on my arm.
I lift my arm into the air and twist it a bit, looking at the mark. "Wow… that's so cool." Then I glance at Natsu and grin. "We're in a guild now, that's so cool!"
He grins right back at me. "Yeah. Now, we're Fairy Tail's Dragonslayer Twins."
"Dragonslayer Twins, eh…?" The old man looks at us with a smile. "I think that's a great name for the two of you. Fairy Tail's Dragonslayer Twins. That's a good start. And the two of you can use that to start building yourselves a reputation. Once you start taking jobs, it'll be the start of a whole new legend."
Natsu gets my attention by squeezing my hand, and I can see the image he's thinking of. If we can do this, then maybe it will help us to find Igneel. Maybe, if we get strong enough, we'll find Dad again.
I giggle a little, feeling eager to get started. Yeah. We'll get really strong, and we'll be able to go all over the world to look for him. And maybe, we'll find him while out on a job. And here, we can gather information about him. This is where we start.
This is where our Fairy Tail legend begins.